A lot of the articles in the blogs also appear in the BULLETIN, journal of the Canadian Nuclear Society, in full or in abridged form. Although not mentioned in the articles, items 4, 7, 10 and 13 appeared in the BULLETIN. Item 4 appeared in the 2010 December edition, item 7 in the 2011 March edition, item 10 in the 2011 December edition and item 13 in the 2012 March edition. Item 8, as it appeared in the 2009 June edition of the BULLETIN, is referenced by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) but wrongly affiliated the author with Ontario Power Generation when in fact he was retired from AECL (Atomic Energy of Canada Limited).

Donald joined the CANDU design team of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) at Sheridan Park, Mississauga, Ontario, in 1967 as a Professional Engineer and retired from AECL in 2003. His timing was perfect since he was there as a Section Head, Process Control, at the very beginning of the design work on the first CANDU 6 projects in the early 1970s at the time when the technical decisions had to be made, before moving on to other positions within AECL. Prior to joining AECL he had spent five years as an Engineer in the Technical Department of Orenda Engines, a Division of Hawker Siddeley Canada Ltd. (previously A. V. Roe Canada Ltd.), at Malton, Ontario. Before coming to Canada from the UK in 1962 he was with the de Havilland Aircraft Company Ltd., Manor Road Site, Hatfield, England, in the Thermodynamics Department. He has served a Student Apprenticeship in the UK aerospace industry and graduated from the University of Wales in Mechanical Engineering. Donald’s father was a steam locomotive engineer on the Great Western Railway (GWR) and later on the Western Region of British Railways with a transition to diesel-electric locomotives in his last year before retiring, and this fostered Donald’s interest in engineering as a career from an early age.

Here are links to articles, on various sites, written by Donald Jones, B.Sc., M.A.Sc.: